Obituary for Frank Rowell Hayes, silent film actor, d. Friday,28 Dec 1923, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California; Burial on Monday 31 Dec 1923, Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California
-- From: Camera [magazine, “The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry”], Los Angeles, California, Saturday, April 14, 1923, Page 16, “Flashes from Frisco” column, by Agnes Kerr Crawford
-- From: Internet Archive; TinyURLlink: http://tinyurl.com/jxpy5k5
-- Collected and transcribed 7 Sep 2016 by Jean E. DeLauche
Transcription: [Notes in brackets]
The remains of Frank Hayes, famous comedian, were brought to San Francisco for burial Monday morning [31 Dec 1923], at Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Funeral services attended by many of the greatest directors and players of the cinema world, having been held at his late residence in Los Angeles on Sunday [30 Dec 1923], there were only brief words of comfort and prayer spoken at the grave. Mr. Hayes was not only born and raised in San Francisco, but was a member of one of its oldest families. So it is an odd chance that his last picture and the greatest part of his whole career, should have been in “Greed,” which was almost all filmed here [San Francisco, Calif.], and to the preview of which he had looked forward with so much interest, only to die too soon to see its first showing.
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Son of Michael and Katherine Tormey Hayes
Married Key West, Florida native and widow Charlotte (Lottie) Harriet Ward Christensen Kemp [maiden name: Ward], September 2, 1899, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey
- Two of her three children from her two previous marriages took Hayes as their surnames:
- Venice Louise Kemp / Venice Louise Hayes
- Wilson Ward Kemp / Ward Wilson Hayes
Cause of death: Pneumonia
He was a stage and silent film actor, well known for his distinctive looks and film comedies
Some of the silent films in which he performed:
- Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914)
- Fatty's Jonah Day (1914)
- His Musical Career (1914)
- Lover's Luck (1914)
- Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
- Rum and Wall Paper (1915)
- Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
- The Little Teacher (1915)
- Their Social Splash (1915)
- When Love Took Wings (1915)
- That Little Band of Gold (1915)
- Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915)
- Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (1915)
- Fatty's Reckless Fling (1915)
- Hogan's Romance Upset (1915)
- Fatty's New Role (1915)
- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915)
- Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915)
- Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
- When Do We Eat? (1918)
- After His Own Heart (1919)
- Cupid Forecloses (1919)
- Love (1919)
- The Stage Hand (1920)
- The Gown Shop (1923)
- Double Dealing (1923)
- The Barnyard (1923)
- Greed (1924), a drama directed by Erich von Stroheim [Released after Frank Hayes's death; His role of Charles W. Grannis was uncredited]
-- From: Camera [magazine, “The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry”], Los Angeles, California, Saturday, April 14, 1923, Page 16, “Flashes from Frisco” column, by Agnes Kerr Crawford
-- From: Internet Archive; TinyURLlink: http://tinyurl.com/jxpy5k5
-- Collected and transcribed 7 Sep 2016 by Jean E. DeLauche
Transcription: [Notes in brackets]
The remains of Frank Hayes, famous comedian, were brought to San Francisco for burial Monday morning [31 Dec 1923], at Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Funeral services attended by many of the greatest directors and players of the cinema world, having been held at his late residence in Los Angeles on Sunday [30 Dec 1923], there were only brief words of comfort and prayer spoken at the grave. Mr. Hayes was not only born and raised in San Francisco, but was a member of one of its oldest families. So it is an odd chance that his last picture and the greatest part of his whole career, should have been in “Greed,” which was almost all filmed here [San Francisco, Calif.], and to the preview of which he had looked forward with so much interest, only to die too soon to see its first showing.
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Son of Michael and Katherine Tormey Hayes
Married Key West, Florida native and widow Charlotte (Lottie) Harriet Ward Christensen Kemp [maiden name: Ward], September 2, 1899, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey
- Two of her three children from her two previous marriages took Hayes as their surnames:
- Venice Louise Kemp / Venice Louise Hayes
- Wilson Ward Kemp / Ward Wilson Hayes
Cause of death: Pneumonia
He was a stage and silent film actor, well known for his distinctive looks and film comedies
Some of the silent films in which he performed:
- Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914)
- Fatty's Jonah Day (1914)
- His Musical Career (1914)
- Lover's Luck (1914)
- Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
- Rum and Wall Paper (1915)
- Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
- The Little Teacher (1915)
- Their Social Splash (1915)
- When Love Took Wings (1915)
- That Little Band of Gold (1915)
- Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915)
- Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (1915)
- Fatty's Reckless Fling (1915)
- Hogan's Romance Upset (1915)
- Fatty's New Role (1915)
- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915)
- Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915)
- Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
- When Do We Eat? (1918)
- After His Own Heart (1919)
- Cupid Forecloses (1919)
- Love (1919)
- The Stage Hand (1920)
- The Gown Shop (1923)
- Double Dealing (1923)
- The Barnyard (1923)
- Greed (1924), a drama directed by Erich von Stroheim [Released after Frank Hayes's death; His role of Charles W. Grannis was uncredited]
Obituary for Frank Rowell Hayes, silent film actor, d. Friday,28 Dec 1923, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California; Burial on Monday 31 Dec 1923, Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California
-- From: Camera [magazine, “The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry”], Los Angeles, California, Saturday, April 14, 1923, Page 16, “Flashes from Frisco” column, by Agnes Kerr Crawford
-- From: Internet Archive; TinyURLlink: http://tinyurl.com/jxpy5k5
-- Collected and transcribed 7 Sep 2016 by Jean E. DeLauche
Transcription: [Notes in brackets]
The remains of Frank Hayes, famous comedian, were brought to San Francisco for burial Monday morning [31 Dec 1923], at Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Funeral services attended by many of the greatest directors and players of the cinema world, having been held at his late residence in Los Angeles on Sunday [30 Dec 1923], there were only brief words of comfort and prayer spoken at the grave. Mr. Hayes was not only born and raised in San Francisco, but was a member of one of its oldest families. So it is an odd chance that his last picture and the greatest part of his whole career, should have been in “Greed,” which was almost all filmed here [San Francisco, Calif.], and to the preview of which he had looked forward with so much interest, only to die too soon to see its first showing.
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Son of Michael and Katherine Tormey Hayes
Married Key West, Florida native and widow Charlotte (Lottie) Harriet Ward Christensen Kemp [maiden name: Ward], September 2, 1899, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey
- Two of her three children from her two previous marriages took Hayes as their surnames:
- Venice Louise Kemp / Venice Louise Hayes
- Wilson Ward Kemp / Ward Wilson Hayes
Cause of death: Pneumonia
He was a stage and silent film actor, well known for his distinctive looks and film comedies
Some of the silent films in which he performed:
- Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914)
- Fatty's Jonah Day (1914)
- His Musical Career (1914)
- Lover's Luck (1914)
- Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
- Rum and Wall Paper (1915)
- Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
- The Little Teacher (1915)
- Their Social Splash (1915)
- When Love Took Wings (1915)
- That Little Band of Gold (1915)
- Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915)
- Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (1915)
- Fatty's Reckless Fling (1915)
- Hogan's Romance Upset (1915)
- Fatty's New Role (1915)
- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915)
- Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915)
- Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
- When Do We Eat? (1918)
- After His Own Heart (1919)
- Cupid Forecloses (1919)
- Love (1919)
- The Stage Hand (1920)
- The Gown Shop (1923)
- Double Dealing (1923)
- The Barnyard (1923)
- Greed (1924), a drama directed by Erich von Stroheim [Released after Frank Hayes's death; His role of Charles W. Grannis was uncredited]
-- From: Camera [magazine, “The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry”], Los Angeles, California, Saturday, April 14, 1923, Page 16, “Flashes from Frisco” column, by Agnes Kerr Crawford
-- From: Internet Archive; TinyURLlink: http://tinyurl.com/jxpy5k5
-- Collected and transcribed 7 Sep 2016 by Jean E. DeLauche
Transcription: [Notes in brackets]
The remains of Frank Hayes, famous comedian, were brought to San Francisco for burial Monday morning [31 Dec 1923], at Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Funeral services attended by many of the greatest directors and players of the cinema world, having been held at his late residence in Los Angeles on Sunday [30 Dec 1923], there were only brief words of comfort and prayer spoken at the grave. Mr. Hayes was not only born and raised in San Francisco, but was a member of one of its oldest families. So it is an odd chance that his last picture and the greatest part of his whole career, should have been in “Greed,” which was almost all filmed here [San Francisco, Calif.], and to the preview of which he had looked forward with so much interest, only to die too soon to see its first showing.
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Son of Michael and Katherine Tormey Hayes
Married Key West, Florida native and widow Charlotte (Lottie) Harriet Ward Christensen Kemp [maiden name: Ward], September 2, 1899, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey
- Two of her three children from her two previous marriages took Hayes as their surnames:
- Venice Louise Kemp / Venice Louise Hayes
- Wilson Ward Kemp / Ward Wilson Hayes
Cause of death: Pneumonia
He was a stage and silent film actor, well known for his distinctive looks and film comedies
Some of the silent films in which he performed:
- Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914)
- Fatty's Jonah Day (1914)
- His Musical Career (1914)
- Lover's Luck (1914)
- Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
- Rum and Wall Paper (1915)
- Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
- The Little Teacher (1915)
- Their Social Splash (1915)
- When Love Took Wings (1915)
- That Little Band of Gold (1915)
- Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915)
- Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (1915)
- Fatty's Reckless Fling (1915)
- Hogan's Romance Upset (1915)
- Fatty's New Role (1915)
- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915)
- Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915)
- Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
- When Do We Eat? (1918)
- After His Own Heart (1919)
- Cupid Forecloses (1919)
- Love (1919)
- The Stage Hand (1920)
- The Gown Shop (1923)
- Double Dealing (1923)
- The Barnyard (1923)
- Greed (1924), a drama directed by Erich von Stroheim [Released after Frank Hayes's death; His role of Charles W. Grannis was uncredited]
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